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Scilla rabbit. Watch out for scilled hunting dogs. Tomorrow is Saturday, my favorite day of the week. That reminds me to car wash early in the AM hoping it will last till noon in the pollen storms of this weekend.

From the online etymology dictionary:"Silly: O.E. gesælig "happy" (related to sæl "happiness"), ...Ger. selig "blessed, happy, blissful"), ...The word's considerable sense development moved from "blessed" to "pious," to "innocent" (1200), to "harmless," to "pitiable" (c.1280), to "weak" (c.1300), to "feeble in mind, lacking in reason, foolish" (1576). Further tendency toward "stunned, dazed as by a blow" (1886) in knocked silly, etc. Silly season in journalism slang is from 1861 (August and September, when newspapers compensate for a lack of hard news by filling up with trivial stories)."

One of those words, like "nice," which originally meant silly or foolish, that means something almost opposite to its first meaning.

page 1: two dogs stand up on the verso side, a pug and a collie type. A brick wall stands up on the recto side

page 2: The angle of view changes. The pug remains unchanged on the verso but it doesn't stand up. The collie changes aspect and flies across the recto side into the brick wall. A door mechanism on the wall simultaneously flips as the dog swings across and conceals the dogs head. The door is just a flap and on the flap the word BLAM is printed with with concussion marks signifying impact.

page 3: The collie is laying on the ground in front of the brick wall with its longish face compressed in accordion style with bits of brick laying around on the ground and a hole in the brick wall. The pug remains unchanged on the verso side but there's a speech bubble associated with the pug that reads: "That answers your question then."

Boom, boom, ain't it great to be...crazyBoom, boom ain't it great to be...crazy!Silly and foolish the whole day through--Boom, boom, ain't it great to be...crazy.

(Just the chorus--anybody want the verses?)

My kids--do they remember the lessons their mother taught them? Not nearly as much as the silly songs I sang them, the goofy jokes, and the way I read Dr. Seuss stories.

By the way--if you have never watched Veggie Tales, they have a lot of Very Silly Songs, that are extremely funny!

Oh, where is my hairbrush...The water buffalo song..We are pirates who don't do anything...I love my lips...The traditional Argentinian song, The Dance of the Cucumber, in its original Spanish, sung by Larry the Cucumber and translated by Bob the Tomato. All on you-tube. Certified to meet the smile requirements of 99.97% of the population under the age of 122.

Here's something that I've been noticing. When you're at the main page of this blog, you'll see that there are, oh let's say, 18 comments, then when you open the comments, you'll see that there are 20 comments. What's up with that?

The report says the pilot was discouraged from landing at the field by ATC and given two other possibilities.

He over-rode their "suggestion" and crashed.

The Prime Minister, Tusk, was not on the plane.

NYTNY - I also had the same thought cross my mind -- about the crash and Putin taking charge off the investigation (now there's a thought which generates no confidence, even if it was an accident) -- but the facts seem to rule out a conspiracy.

I mean, if one is going to take out a bunch of important Polish pols and leaders, one would not plan it for when they are on their way to Katyn.